Garment-hook.



No. 65!,792. Patented lune l2, I900.

c. J. BROSNAN. 1 GARMENT HOOK.

(Application filed Mar. 10, 1900.)

-(No Model.)

. ing is a full, clear, and exact description.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORNELIUS J. BROSNAN, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE D. ELDREDGE, OF OHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 651,792, dated June 12, 1900.

Application filed March 10, 1900.

This invention relates to improvements in the hook member of a hook and eye for garments.

The object of this invention is to provide a hook of the class or type in whichis comprised an eye at the forward endof the hook-bendthat is, at the end opposite the usual eyes at the rear of the hook shank orbase-which forward eye enables by the engagement therewith of thread which is sewed to the fabric on which the hook is applied the firm retention of the forward part of the hook-base close to the fabric in such a Waythat the forward attachment-eye when secured is independent of and free from the part of the hook which comprises the hump, so that when such forward eye is fastened closely against the cloth it in no way impairs or defeats the action of the hump.

The invention consists in a hook having features and having forms and arrangements of loops and bends in the wire from which the hook is composed, all substantially as hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which the present improved garment-hook is illustrated as'made under this invention in an approved and preferred form.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the hook. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 is a side View.

In the drawings, A represents the hook as a whole, of which a is the bill or tongue; 11, the shank; c, the hook-bend 5 d cl, the attachment-eyes, as usual, at the rear of the shank, and f the attachment eye or loop on the plane Serial No. 8.147. .(No model.)

ric and held against rising or swinging up at the forward end. The attachment through means of this newly-provided eye in advance of the hook-bend is more easily performed than in the manner heretofore done, wherein the stitches were taken across the base well forward thereof and next to the hook-bend.

In the former manner of securing the hook on the fabric, as above referred to, the eye came in contact with the securing-threads, resulting in their becoming worn and broken, leaving the hook free to swing up relatively to or away from the fabric; but it will be apparent that by having the securing-stitches in engagement with the eye f, which is forward of the hook-bend, the hook-bend prevents the contact and abrasion by the eye on theattaching-stit-ches or the forward end of the hook.

As the hook is preferably constructed, I make it of a single length of wire, which I double on itself at 10 to make the end of the hook-bill. The so-doubled wire is then again doubled to make the hook-bend c, and a part 11 of one terminal is extended on the plane of the base from the hook-bend rearwardly, outwardly, and then inwardly bent to make the one rear attachment-eye 01, being continued forwardly therefrom in the length 9 on the plane of the base inside of and alongside the said part 11, being upwardly and then downwardly bent to form the hump 12, and the other extremity of the wire from the hook-bend c is extended rearwardly similarly to the portion 11, is similarly return-looped to constitute the second rear attachment-eye, is forwardly continued on the plane of the base in the portion 14 outside of and alongside the portion 13, being carried forwardly of the point of the hook-bend c and formed into the loop f, and, as shown, the terminal section 15 of the wire is carried outside of and along adjacent the aforenamed length of the wire 11. Thus is produced a hook having at of the base or shank and forward of the 1100K- bend c.

It is apparent that by providing the attachment-eye on the plane of the base of the hook and at the forward end of the hook in advance of the hook-bend the forward end of the hook may be most readily sewed down on the fabtne base the several flat-lying lengths of the wire--viz., 15, 11, 9, 13, and 14irnparting to the hook great stability and breadth of contact on the cloth.

I may in lieu of carrying the outside ter- Ioo minal 15 of the wire from the forward eye or loop f rearwardly on the plane of the base have it inwardly turned, as indicated 1 at 15 by dotted lines, Fig. 1, to make a closed loop or eye; but the carrying of the terminal portion of the wire rearwardly, as shown by the full lines, imparts symmetry to the hook as a whole and enables a somewhat easier prod ucv tion of the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A hook composed of a single length of wire doubled on itself at to constitute by the return-bent part, the end of the hook-bill, the so-doubled wire being then again doubled to form the hook-bend c, and the part 11 of one of the extremities being extended on the plane of the base rearwardly, looped to form arear attachment-eye d, being forwardly continued in the length 9 on the plane of the base, and having the upward bend or hump 12, and the other extremity of the wire being extended in the portion 13 looped to'form a bend and formed into the loop or eye f, sub

stantially as described.

2. A hook, composed of a single length of Wire doubled on itself at 10 to constitute by the return-bent part, the end of the hook-bill, the so-donbled wire being then again doubled to form the hook-bend c; and the part 11 of one of the extremities being extended on the plane of the base rearwardly, looped to form a rear attachment-eye d, forwardly continued in the length 9 on the plane ofthe base, and having the upward bend or hump 12; and the other extremity of the wire being extended in the portion 13 looped to form a second rear attachment-eye forwardly continued in the portion 14 on the plane of the base, being ear ried forwardly of the hook-bend, and return bent to form the loop f in advance of the hookbend, and having the last end portion 15 thereof continued rearwardly in the plane of the base substantially parallel with the other base portions 11, 9, 10, and 14, substantially as described and shown.

Signed by me at S pri u gfield, Massachusetts, this 5th day of March, 1900.

v CORNELIUS J. BROSNAN.

Witnesses: I WM. S. BELLoWs, M. A. CAMPBELL. 

